For the fifth year running sales recruitment and training business Raw Talent Academy is partnering with Harrow College to deliver an Employability Academy to their student body.
The Employability Academy will run for the length of the 2016-17 academic year with over 400 students expected to take part in the initial stages. The brainchild of Raw Talent Academy founder and BBC Apprentice Winner, Lee McQueen, the Employability Academy has been a huge success over the past 4 years.
Lee Janaway, Director of Student Experience at Harrow College says "we really value the importance of developing students' skills and knowledge in employability and enterprise as we prepare them for life after college.
This is the fourth year we have worked with Lee McQueen and Raw Talent Academy, and believe that the process and programme supports our students to develop these skills. From the rigorous selection process that is open to all students, those who are selected for Employability Academy are clearly better prepared for the world of employment with many gaining paid internships or going straight into employment.”
Lee McQueen, who worked for Lord Sugar after winning The Apprentice, added; "we are aiming to make these students more confident when they face potential employers – we believe too many students are not ready for the reality of work and Harrow College is leading the way to change that with over 1,600 students taking part over the last four years. The students that will gain valuable employability and life skills that will help them at college, in work or at university.”
Raw Talent's Employability Academy aims to give students an insight into business through a hands-on programme, which is extracurricular to the studies of students at Harrow College.
Activities on the programme include providing the selected students with the opportunity to visit a large corporation and visit the different areas of a live business environment. They also receive coaching from business experts and owners who have been managing directors at multi-million pound organisations on specific skills required in employability. Students will also take part in 'Apprentice' style tasks before presenting details of their personal development.
Former Harrow College student Ajay Modha, 18, who was part of the 2015-16 Employability Academy said; "the audition day was an amazing experience and a real insight into business and The Apprentice. Winning a place on the Employability Academy coaching course gave me a great opportunity to improve my employability skills and has definitely put me in the right frame of mind for life experiences to come."
Existing and newly enrolled students at Harrow College will have the opportunity to join the Employability Academy, with over 400 students expected to apply to gain a place. The students will be put through a rigid interview and selection process with the top 40-50-invited to the audition day. Tasks to win one of the 20 places available on Raw Talent's Employability Academy will take place at the college's Enterprise Centre at the Harrow on the Hill campus in October 2016.
Harrow College is continuing to welcome new students for the 2016-17 academic year. Students are invited to enrol now to be eligible for an opportunity to join the Raw Talent’s Employability Academy. Find out more about enrolment at Harrow College and Raw Talent’s Employability Academy.